Impossible to run my app anymore

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Hello everyone,

I started from a completely fresh React Native project and copied only my src/ folder (screens, components, styles, Supabase services, etc.). Cursor then “enhanced” my original project by creating duplicate nested folders with the same names, which made my project structure totally incomprehensible—even to me. I then created a brand-new project and pasted in the latest version of my src/ folder, but it still won’t run (Metro hangs or crashes, Xcode/Android Studio report pod errors, missing modules, TurboModuleRegistry errors, PrivacyInfo.xcprivacy not found, and so on).

I have no idea where to start debugging. Does anyone know a straightforward way to:

  1. Rebuild a clean React Native project using only my src/ folder,

  2. Pinpoint the root cause that’s blocking the app from launching?

I’ve been stuck on this issue for 3 days and I still can’t recover my app, even though I have all my designs. Honestly, I’m this close to canceling my Cursor subscription — it’s only making things worse. I’d really appreciate any help asap

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Developing on a Mac / time machine activated? Or using git?

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Mac, using git if I’m correct

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So, if you are using git properly you should be able to get back to the working state (unless you have Time Machine backups activated, that would be easier to go back).
But before you try, make a .zip as backup of the current state of the whole folder.

Then go back to the last known commit and rebuild everything, preferably with options like --clean.
This is a task you need to do yourself, we don’t know your project or error..

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Thanks for the comment. Do you have any recommended prompt about it ? As far as I tried, even my latest checking point was not able to rebuilt the previous versions. My folder that contained my Src file (with all the designs app, etc.) is still intact. But from that folder, what should I do ?

Restart a new project and import this src file and try to ask to rebuild eveything ?